Ben Wellings

Ben Wellings is Deputy-director of the Monash European and EU Centre, Monash University. His book English Nationalism and Euroscepticism (Bern, Peter Lang, 2012) examines the links between resistance to the European Union and nationalism in contemporary England.

There's a reason former London mayor Boris Johnson raised the spectre of Hitler and Nazism in arguments for Britain to exit the European Union. The past, particularly World War II, is the emotive key to Brexit support.